Wired magazine recently visited the Blue Lake Rancheria and the Schatz Center to learn how microgrid systems create energy security during natural disasters. Reporter Matt Simon compares the Rancheria’s microgrids...
Category - Energy planning
Maia Cheli
A public session on offshore wind and California fisheries and wildlife (5/3)
On Friday, May 3, experts from natural resource and energy agencies, the wind industry, and fisheries and environmental groups will gather in Eureka to discuss how fisheries and wildlife might coexist with offshore wind...
Schatz Center
Lecture: California offshore wind – the challenges of “high road” climate policy (4/11)
5:30 pm Thursday, April 11 in Founders Hall 118 Planning is underway to site huge floating wind farms along California’s coast, including offshore Humboldt County, to help the state reach its goals of 100 percent...
Lecture: The environmental sustainability of energy use at HSU (4/4)
5:30 pm Thursday, April 4 in Founders Hall 118 Humboldt State University has set ambitious climate action goals, including a target to achieve an 80% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions relative to 1990 levels by 2040...
Lecture: Humboldt Bay on the threshold of change — sea level rise challenges to a sustainable future (3/28)
5:30 pm Thursday, March 28 in Founders Hall 118 Environmental planner Aldaron Laird specializes in sea level rise vulnerability assessments and adaptation planning, specifically in the Humboldt Bay region. In this...
Energy Paths for the Yurok People
We recently helped the Yurok Tribe secure $180,000 from the U.S. Department of Energy and we are now working together to develop a Yurok Tribe Strategic Energy Action Plan. This plan will support the tribe’s efforts to...
Jim Zoellick
Nov 1 lecture: the Native American reservation electricity access gap
For our final talk in this semester’s Sustainable Futures Speaker Series, Catherine J.K. Sandoval will explore The Native American reservation electricity access gap: a case study of the Yurok Tribe’s energy...
Fuel Cell Vehicle Readiness: Project Update
Over the last three years, the Schatz Center has been a technical lead for the North Coast and Upstate Fuel Cell Vehicle Readiness Project, in partnership with the Redwood Coast Energy Authority and six local government...
Jerome CarmanSustainable Futures Speaker Series: Scaling up renewable power in Humboldt County – Nov 9
Join us on Thursday, November 9 at 5:30 pm in Founders Hall 118 for the final session in this semester’s Sustainable Futures Speaker Series. A panel of energy experts will explore the opportunities and challenges of...
Sustainable Futures Speaker Series: Mallik Angalakudati of PG&E on California’s Energy Future
We are pleased to welcome Mallik Angalakudati of PG&E as the next speaker in the Spring 2017 Sustainable Futures Speaker Series. Mallik will speak on Thursday, March 2 from 5:30 to 7:00 PM in Founders Hall 118...
Arne JacobsonNorthwest California Alternative Fuels Readiness Project
With funding from the California Energy Commission under solicitation PON-13-603, the Redwood Coast Energy Authority (RCEA) and SERC began a two-year planning process in the spring of 2014. Key project partners were the...
HSU Students Install GridShare Devices in Bhutan
For over two years, a dedicated group of HSU students and advisors has been working on the design of a “GridShare” device intended to reduce the occurrence of brownouts on power-limited mini-electric grids. Last year...
Meg Harper
